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		<title>&#8220;Internet Literacy: The Genre&#8221; : CUE 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you as well to those of you (wow!  there were a lot of you!) who attended my &#8220;Internet Literacy: The Genre&#8221; session at CUE.
As promised, here is the keynote itself to peruse at your leisure. As with everything on my site, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/03/05/internet-literacy-the-genre-cue-2010/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Podcasting with 70 Middle Schoolers&#8221;: CUE 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone who attended my session today at CUE on &#8220;Podcasting with 70 Middle Schoolers.&#8221;  As promised, here is the keynote itself to peruse at your leisure.  As with everything on my site, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License .
Bottom line: please feel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/03/05/podcasting-with-70-middle-schoolers-cue-2010/</link>
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		<title>Part 3 of 3: The Future of Teacher Prep Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, what began as mere musings, seems to have become a fully fleshed fantasy for what a teacher prep program of the future may look like.  It all began in Part 1 of this series of posts.  It continued in Part 2, and now it concludes in this, The Final Chapter.
In this last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/02/26/part-3-of-3-the-future-of-teacher-prep-programs/</link>
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		<title>Part 2 of 3: The Future of Teacher Prep Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In yesterday&#8217;s post, Part I of 3: The Future of Teacher Prep Programs, I fantasized about what a credential program might look like years down the line.  Here is Part II of my post that will address the following points:
The Staff
Awards Towards a Differentiated Credential
Again, I feel the need to reiterate that I do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/02/26/part-2-of-3-the-future-of-teacher-prep-programs/</link>
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		<title>Part I of 3: The Future of Teacher Prep Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My credential program was more of a necessary hoop than a valuable preparation program.  My Ed Psych professor read his screenplay to us all semester long.  My Methods of Math professor hadn’t been in a classroom for 30 years, and before then, it was only for six months.  I never had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/02/25/part-i-of-3-the-future-of-teacher-prep-programs/</link>
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		<title>When the Aliens Attack, Will Education Unite?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just took a look at the recently released Metlife Survey of the American Teacher, and its section on &#8220;Effective Teaching and Leadership.&#8221;  This section of the survey reported much about the opinions of teachers and administrators, focusing much of its findings on the role of collaboration on school sites.
And it kind of got me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/02/18/when-the-aliens-attack-will-education-unite/</link>
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		<title>Sneaking a Puff of Professional Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m at CATE this weekend (California Association of Teachers of English) as both presenter and attendee. I&#8217;m doing two sessions: one on Internet Literacy (based on my recent workbooks) and one in a panel of Writing Project teachers on a sampling of 21st Century skills. But I&#8217;m really here to recharge my batteries by learning, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/02/12/sneaking-a-puff-of-professional-development/</link>
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		<title>Why Equity can be a bad word for Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As well intentioned as it is, the goal of equity in all branches of education is doing a disservice to the goal of, well, equity. I&#8217;m searching for a word here.  Maybe I need to make one up.  I need a word for &#8220;the negative solution that results in the attempts to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/02/11/why-equity-can-be-a-bad-word-for-education/</link>
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		<title>Is Education a Mudslide?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s like trying to stop a flow of lava with a Scott&#8217;s paper towel. It&#8217;s been this way for years!&#8221; The lady who said this wasn&#8217;t talking about education, but she could very well have been.  The lady in question is my mom who took this picture of the view from her home office. 
She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/02/05/is-education-a-mudslide/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Take that Education to Go: Individualization vs. Standardization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We live in a world of double-decaf-non-fat-lattes-with-room.  We live in a world that is slowly beginning to customize everything from our coffee orders to our spa treatments.  But it won&#8217;t just stop with luxury items.
Some teachers complain about the effort that differentiation entails, that need to offer rigorous curriculum for a wide range [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/01/21/ill-take-that-education-to-go-individualization-vs-standardization/</link>
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		<title>How do we &#8220;Fix the Schools?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ellen Berg, my colleague in The Teacher Leaders asked this very simple question the other day.  I had so much fun in answering and I believe so deeply in the power of this simple question that I wanted to share my comment and throw the question out to my readers.  I believe in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/01/10/how-do-we-fix-the-schools/</link>
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		<title>LA Times Article: Bailing on Schools Doesn&#8217;t Fix Schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So a colleague of mine commented yesterday on my article &#8220;Is TFA a Volunteerism Succubus?&#8221;  David Cohen (fellow member of The Teacher Leaders Network and creator the ACT ning) said the following in response to my article:
&#8220;&#8230;They won&#8217;t invest in deeper structural improvements, won&#8217;t risk the political fallout of admitting that poverty matters in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/01/07/la-times-article-bailing-on-schools-doesnt-fix-schools/</link>
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		<title>Is TFA a Volunteerism Succubus?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times recently published an article, which shares an analysis of the post-service Teach for America corps and their subsequent level of civil service. To those involved in TFA, the findings were somewhat cringe-worthy. To the rest of us, however, they were not so shocking.(...)Read the rest of Is TFA a Volunteerism Succubus? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2010/01/06/is-tfa-a-volunteerism-succubus/</link>
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		<title>The Truth About Tenure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted before about this topic, but I wanted my readers to know that The George Lucas Foundation&#8217;s Edutopia.org has just posted my article on &#8220;The Truth About Tenure.&#8221; You can read it here.
Tenured or untenured.  I hope you all feel appreciated all year long for what you do for our students, our schools, and our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2009/12/22/the-truth-about-tenure/</link>
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		<title>Studies Find There&#8217;s No Such Thing as Learning Styles &#8211; As Teachers, Should We Care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Psychcentral.com, &#8220;Learning Styles are being re-evaluated&#8221; and negated. This theory, according to a recently published journal article claims that there is really no research out there to prove that students learn differently from one another.
Shrug.   Cue eye roll.(...)Read the rest of Studies Find There&#8217;s No Such Thing as Learning Styles &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2009/12/19/studies-find-theres-no-such-thing-as-learning-styles-as-teachers-should-we-care/</link>
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		<title>L.A. Times: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget a Note of Thanks&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday&#8217;s LA Times took a tip from Miss Manners and decided to include a &#8220;Yuletide Tip Guide&#8221; in Booth Moore&#8217;s article &#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget a Note of Thanks.&#8221;  Warm and fuzzy, right?  Well, you should read the list.(...)Read the rest of L.A. Times: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget a Note of Thanks&#8221; (383 words)

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		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2009/12/09/l-a-times-dont-forget-a-note-of-thanks/</link>
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		<title>Arizona to Abolish Teacher Tenure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Arizona Star, AZ is about to become the first state to eliminate teacher tenure entirely from its educational system.  AZ&#8217;s an interesting state.  They are definitely onto something with abolishing the time change thing.  Now THAT&#8217;S antiquated.  But they&#8217;ve got it wrong with ditching teacher tenure all together.  Check out the article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2009/12/07/arizona-to-abolish-teacher-tenure/</link>
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		<title>The Rules of Netiquette for Online Gaming and RPGs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The upcoming issue of Imagine Magazine is going to focus on online gaming and role-playing games, so I was  pumped when they approached me to see if I was interested in contributing again to their magazine.  After all, for all my readers out there, you know that I&#8217;m a WoW player, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2009/11/21/the-rules-of-netiquette-for-online-gaming-and-rpgs/</link>
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		<title>Open Letter to Obama &#8211; Facebook Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My fellow Teacher Leader Network colleague, Anthony Cody, recently began a Facebook campaign which has lit a fire in teachers from around the country.  Open Letters to President Obama asks teachers to write a letter to our president and Secretary Duncan in the form of a discussion post about our concerns in their current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2009/11/15/open-letter-to-obama-facebook-campaign/</link>
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		<title>What Kind of Relationship Will I Have With My Child&#8217;s School?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year is unlike any other in that for the first time, I am on the other side of the desk.  My 3 year-old started pre-school this year and it has become a lesson in parenting and teaching like no other.
Ms. E is my son’s appropriately bubbly teacher.  She has smiles in her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2009/11/15/what-kind-of-relationship-will-i-have-with-my-childs-school/</link>
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